Above: View from the Midden - dinghy
dock at Montague Harbour marine park.
Left: Montague Harbour - view from the
north walk.
wooden boxes and placed in trees, and
others were buried in middens. An
anthropologist would call middens trash
heaps, but our British Columbia First
Nations say they are burial sites. 'q'unup
they are called in Hul'qumi'num, which
means 'white ground.'
And they are very beautiful. They are
white shell beaches, some of which
extend metres down, and they are thousands of years old. Think of it. For time
immeasurable before our baby country
was hatched from its colonial egg, the
Hul'qumi'num people visited these sites
on a yearly rhythm and they placed the
shells of the mollusks they harvested in
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Canadian Yachting
DECEMBER 2017

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